Look east: an exhilarating weekend in London’s new cultural quarter | London holidays

R.Here is a collective amount of breathing as the coordinator slowly canceled the white clothing bag to detect the treasure inside: a white military jacket decorated with golden buttons and libraries, worn by Elton John on his global tour in 1981. Westod and evening dress in Percenia Pink Pink. It is a dream of fashion fans fever and everything here, in my fingertips.
I am in V & a Storehouse In East London, a radical new museum experience that allows anyone to request any element from the wide V & A group – for free – and examine it in close places. It is located at the former Olympic Media Center, on the edge Queen Elizabeth Olympic GardenThis noble warehouse space allows unprecedented access to more than 250,000 objects, from a 11 -meter cloth designed by Picasso to a cross section of Maisonette from Robin Hood Gardens The real estate council in the poplar. Glass cases, white walls and carefully coordinated exhibitions have been given the traditional museum space. Instead, visitors are invited to look behind the scenes in the Labor Museum, to roam the open shelves stacked with narcotic selective things and to look at the workshops where the conservatives are at work. The effect is the IKEA part, part of the Victorian cabinet of curiosity. It is Bonker, delight and I love him.
The opening of this new website V & A is the last chapter in the re -invention of the Olympic Park as a “new cultural living” in London. At the time of London 2012 games, I lived in Bow, on the edge of the Olympic Garden. On the opening ceremony night, we saw from the window of my apartment while fireworks lit up the sky on the field. It was the culmination of one of the most ambitious renewal projects that London witnessed at all and we had a seat on the side of the circuit, as this brave new world rose from the 560 acres of Brown.
In addition to providing an area deprived of East London with world -class sports facilities, part of the Olympic heritage was the promise to build a new creative center, somewhere that would inspire both locals and visitors alike. We moved from the area shortly after the games ended, so I was curious to see myself if this promise has been fulfilled.
In the morning of the bright spring, the tin quietly with activity. Adolescents slide along wide streets on cylinder skipping and young children playing water fountains in front of the London Stadium. On the channel, families are drifting in Pidalos in the form of white pelicans, which were observed by Za Hadid that imposed Water Center Who keeps a graceful bow in the blue sky.
My daughter and I made a line of a group of new buildings lined up along the channel. the The Eastern Bank The project is the largest individual investment in culture by the London Mayor since the Grand Exhibition of 1851. The first phase was launched in 2023 with the opening of a new university campus for the University of London University (UCL) and the London Faculty of Fashion. Both sites are designed to be open and available to the public. So you can wander around the UCL East and watch the general technical facilities – on our visit, “Gaia” Luke Jamer, a replica of the ground, was floating over the atrium – or heading to the cafe where coffee will be delivered to you by a robot waiter.
At London Fashion College, public areas host regular performances for students’ work. We wander around the hallway, all the concrete stairs and naked bending, and I am surprised by the display of strange university creations – although my daughter is more deported by the sophisticated edge worn by fashion students.
The adjacent is Sidler Wales EastA new site from the dance theater that opened in February. The opening of the open scheme is the home of a clock filled with light, a cafe and a dance space-when we go down to have coffee, there is a community dance separation in the middle of the flow. The 550 -seat hall will provide a home to visit dance companies of each type, from ballet to hip -hop. We have booked tickets to display that evening, which is a family friend’s performance from Snow White by Palm Clorent.
Our next stop is The orbit of ArceelormittalThe twisted red steel statue wandering over the Olympic Garden. We take the elevator to the viewing platform, which is an amazing 80 meter above the ground. Under us, the London Stadium, which is now the home of West Hamo Football Club, has been placed like the mountain stadium. As a rule, I am trying to avoid any activity that has to have to have no enthusiasm for Australian football and elbow. However, I am here, I joined the adolescent waiting list waiting for their feet first below the helix, Skelter, which climbs around the outer part of the Anish Kapoor teacher in the Marc. My teenage daughter takes one look at the foam helmet and refuses to go further. “It is just a large segment!” Tell her. “Come on, it will be fun!”
These words-other than them that cannot be published here-are in my ears while I was giving up the metal tube at a terrifying speed, after 40 seconds of feeling as if I was nullified in S-Bend. My reasonable daughter took the elevator and waiting for me at the bottom. “My mom,” as you say.
One of the side effects of converting this area was prosperous for a local food scene, from the first zero restaurant in the world, silo In Hakkini Wake, to East ParageFame and Restaurant is based in the London Stadium. We booked a table in HeraOne of the latest openings in the garden, which won the decorations for its authentic Greek food.
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Do not disappoint you. From a homemade baking basket and smoked eggplant with thyme, honey and balsamic vinegar, to the elegant sea car and two coal grilled chicken, everything is sexy. But the prominent plate is the Vita Saganaki-Vita Jesus, wrapped with an angel’s hair, deep fried and spray with lemon honey. My daughter and I dreamed of her after weeks.
It is the lunch type that must be followed by a long picnic, so we follow the channel’s path, threatened with herbs whispering in the head, to the northern half of the garden, in the end I reached the icon Olympic episodes-which found a permanent home on the leed Valley Velopark.
A group of women wearing the fifth feet clothes in the sequins sparkling in the past late in the afternoon, on their way Aba trip. The virtual party experience attracted more than two million visitors since it opened in a yard created for this purpose on the edge of the Olympic Garden in 2022. In September, an army of David Bowie fans will join them when V & Storehouse becomes a new home for David Bowie archive, and it consists of theater fashion, song songs, tools, and tools Integrated and odors. There is more in the future. Next year, the BBC Music Studios will be transferred from Mida Fall to Stratford and the opening of the V&A East Museum in a new amazing building, apparently, with X -rays from the Palansiaga dress.
I enjoyed being a tourist in my old home herb. It may not contain the attractiveness of South Kinsington, the architectural cohesion of the Southern West Bank or the new classic elegance in Covent Garden, but the East Bank is to add activity and inspiring to the cultural scene in London. It is fun. Anywhere else you can slide the longest statue in Britain, deal with old high -end fashion, or dance in front of Abba Avatar, all in one day?
Information about the eastern bank visit and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Garden: Queenezabetholympark.co.uk